observing san diego-tijuana urban life 
Slide show and discussion on Saturday, October 11 at 7:00 PM in San Diego’s Art Produce Gallery, on University Avenue in North Park Tijuana is thriving. And you see this mostly in Tijuana’s neighborhoods, its rows of new master-planned communities decorating the landscape, “For Sale” signs on every corner. An […]
Paola D. Aguirre, creator and co-director of the interdisciplinary project, The Borderless Workshop, interviews Tijuana architect Rene Peralta, on the future of our border. Peralta is a professor and director of the Master’s Program in Landscape Urbanism at Woodbury University in San Diego, and is principle architect in his own […]
Tijuana va a participar en un movimento mundial. 7 de junio, 2014 ¡No faltes!
A new creative space has opened in downtown Tijuana. In March & April, Reactivando Espacios and the team of Hub Stn invited local students to be a part of the transformation process of the former Mexicoach Station Building (located at 1025, Av. Revolución) into a bi-national coworking space. And now […]
A sense of ease and tranquility has come to Tijuana’s chaotic Calle Segunda this week. The transformation of one of the city’s main east-west thoroughfares was evident today as bicyclists and pedestrians slowly wandered along between Avenidas. 5 de Mayo and Mutualismo. Tijuana’s Secretary of Urban Development announced on February […]
Tijuanense Abraham Ca pores over a map of the Mariano Matamoros neighborhood with local resident, looking for the street where she lives. Using the CPTED method (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) artists, architects and community organizers help families identify safe and unsafe spaces in their neighborhoods to help architects and […]
Rancho Bajamosal is located out in the rural area between Tijuana and Rosarito. Owner Adriana Whizar delivers baskets of organics to her growing base of customers every two weeks. And fresh, community grown fair trade coffee from local family farms in Veracruz comes from her friend Cynthia Ramirez Comparán […]
Ultra hip teen skater flies off a ramp and nails the landing at the Vivamos la Calle festival in Tijuana’s Colonia Mariano Matamoros.
In their first exhibition of this work in Tijuana in April of 2013, photographers Anthony Paul Marchetti and Laura Migliorino continue in the tradition of a number of Tijuana and San Diego artists who have focused on the innovative methods of “construction by necessity” in Tijuana’s colonias. This new show […]
In the spring of last year, Al Jazeera picked up on the excitement of Tijuana’s new art and culture scene and did a short piece on it for Al Jazeera television news. Here’s the video:
